Recent News

• Andrew Bacevich, author of The Short American Century, wrote in the Chronicle of Higher Education about Henry Luce’s concept of the “American Century”—and why it’s definitively over. The book also inspired an essay at Inside Higher Ed about the history of “American exceptionalism” as an idea.
• WBUR’s Radio Boston explored the local connection to Mary Walker, subject of Sydney Nathans’s To Free a Family—Harvard Square’s own historic Blacksmith House.
• The Dictionary of American Regional English project was featured in the Wall Street Journal, where you can also play an interactive game matching regional terms with their definitions.
• Peter Frankopan, author of The First Crusade: The Call from the East, wrote in the New York Times about the new research that is changing our classical understanding of the Crusades.
• Browse our Spring 2012 Catalog online.